Whopper Cake (aka Malted Milk Ball Cake) is a moist, dressed up chocolate cake mix that is topped with a malted whipped topping.
WHOPPER CAKE (MALTED MILK BALL CAKE)
This is Whopper, as in malted milk balls, not the grilled kind found at Burger King. That would be a bit weird, wouldn't it? If you love the flavor of Whoppers, then you will really enjoy this cake. I think malted milk is an underused ingredient. I mean, back in the day, you couldn't go into any self-respecting soda shoppe or ice cream shop without seeing the words "Malt" somewhere on the menu.
MALTED MILK BALLS
We love to make Chocolate Malts at home these days. Fortunately, we also have a couple of good shops near us that still make the old-fashioned malts. You can also add malted milk powder to chocolate chip cookies for an incredible flavor. This cake is not only easy but it is given a boost of flavor from good ole malted milk that gives it that yummy and unique taste.
INGREDIENTS NEEDED: (FULL RECIPE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST)
- milk chocolate cake mix
- chocolate malted milk powder
- water
- vegetable oil
- large eggs
- whipped topping (Cool Whip)
- Whoppers malted milk balls
HOW TO MAKE WHOPPER MALTED MILK BALL CAKE:
Preheat oven to 350F degrees Spray 9" x 13" baking dish with nonstick cooking spray with flour. In a medium bowl, combine cake mix with ¾ cups malted milk powder.
Add in eggs, oil and water and stir until combined.
Pour batter into prepared baking pan.
Bake for about 38-40 minutes (until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.) Allow cake to cool completely before making topping. In a medium bowl, combine whipped topping with ¾ cup malted milk powder. Stir until completely incorporated and no longer grainy. Spread topping on top of cooled cake. Put one cup of malted milk balls into a ziploc bag and zip it up. Pound with a rolling pin (or other hard object) to crush Whoppers.
Sprinkle finished cake with crushed malted milk balls.
Then dig in!
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WHOPPER CAKE (MALTED MILK BALL CAKE)
Ingredients
- 1 box Milk Chocolate Cake Mix
- 1 ½ cups chocolate malted milk powder, divided use
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 (8 oz) tub whipped topping, (Cool Whip)
- 1 cup Whoppers malted milk balls
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees
- Spray 13 x 9 baking pan with nonstick cooking spray with flour
- In a medium bowl, combine cake mix with ¾ cups malted milk powder.
- Add in eggs, oil and water and stir until combined.
- Pour batter in baking pan.
- Bake for about 38-40 minutes (until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean)
- Allow cake to cool completely before making topping.
- For the topping
- In a medium bowl, combine whipped topping with ¾ cup malted milk powder.
- Stir until completely incorporated and no longer grainy.
- Spread topping on top of cooled cake.
- Put one cup of malted milk balls into a ziploc bag and zip it up.
- Pound with a rolling pin (or other hard object) to crush Whoppers.
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Notes
Nutrition
Originally posted: October 2011
Updated & Republished: March 2019
Jean
I made this cake, cut 3 pieces for us, and sent the remainder to my daughter who ate a couple of pieces and took the rest to her work. She texted after her employees had a chance to sample, wanting the recipe. Seems they all loved this cake. It is yummy! I like lots of fluff so I used 12 ounces cool whip and a little extra malt powder for the frosting. Also, my cake was done in about 32 minutes. This is a winner and so easy. Thanks
Erin
We all absolutely loved this recipe - thank you!
Wanda
Should this cake be refrigerated? Do the whoppers on top stay crunchie ?
Brandie @ The Country Cook
Hi Wanda, it does need to be kept refrigerated. The whoppers probably won't stay crunchy so you can add them on as you serve if you'd like! 🙂
Susan Miller
When I saw Whopper I thought it meant a really big cake and almost deleted it unread until I thought maybe you meant one of my favorite candies of all time! I'm so glad I checked! This looks yummy, and thanks for including the photo so that I know exactly which kind of malt powder to buy.
Judy Myers
Brandie - I followed the directions exactly but the batter was extremely thin - much thinner than in your video. What did I do wrong? Is 1 cup water too much perhaps? this looks like a wonderful cake and I want it to work! Can you advise?
Anonymous
I can't find chocolate malt but I did find Carnation regular malt. Do you think it would make a huge difference in the taste? Also like the above comment I did see the Ovaltine chocolate malt but wasn't sure if it would be the same.
tmb
if you can't find the malt powder, would chocolate malt Ovaltine powder be a close enough substitute?
Joan
Made this recipe into cupcakes and I used heavy whipping cream to whip my own frosting. It is sooooo good!
Barb
Looks great Brandie, going to pin it now!
Red Rob
What a lovely recipe - had to read the comments to discover what a Whopper was (Malteasers to us British cooks), but recipe looks great. As I work for a professional catering company I'm always on the lookout for recipes to try with our catering equipment.
Mamamax
This looks fabulous and am definitely going to try it! I'm a Brit living in the USA and have just discovered Whoppers last week... unless you're a true connoisseur you cannot tell the difference between them and Maltesers (which I have missed desperately since leaving the UK)! In fact, I was so delighted to discover them, I posted a no-bake Whoppers cake recipe on my blog to mark the occasion! I live in a house with 4 Star Wars obsessed boys and so I named mine a Darth Maul-teser cake!
Thanks for the great recipe!
Sandra
What a great cake,,so moist and with amazing flavors..nicely done, got to make this soon for my kids!!!
carolinaheartstrings
That looks so amazing! I cannot wait to make this. My daughter will love it! We are celebrating our first anniversary today and we have our first give away. Come over check it out.
Holly
Bran, my Mom (and me of course) would go CRAZY for this cake! She love love loves whoppers! They are definitely her favorite candy. I am printing this recipe for her fo sho!
Lizzy
Oh, I love Whoppers!!! Brandie, I'm a little scared to have this delicious cake in my house...I have a feeling I'd be sampling sliver after sliver till it completely disappeared! YUM.
scrambledhenfruit
I heart Whoppers. (And not the b.k. kind either.)My youngest son would absolutely LOVE this cake. He's a whopper fan too. 🙂
The Cannary's
Can't wait to try this - maybe for my son's 16th birthday. I made the glazed pumpkin bread, FYI, and it was so moist and amazing! Keep those recipes comin'!
Kelly | Eat Yourself Skinny
WOW this looks amazing, what a fabulous recipe!! I love everything about this! 🙂
Jill @ MadAboutMacarons
Brandie, this looks whopping incredible. Love the flavour of malt - reminds me of when I was little, my Dad used to buy malt extract and we had a spoonful before going to school in freezing Scotland in the winter. This sounds so wonderful and good to know you could use Maltesers instead. Wonder if I could just use malt extract? 🙂
Love it!
Fotf
If you do come over, stop by and say hi 🙂 What about using malt as in drinking chocolate type stuff?
Tina
I am so glad you posted this. For some reason I have 2 packages of malt and was wondering how I can use up some of it. Great tip on adding it to cookies and love that it is used in this cake recipe. I could really go for a visit to a retro malt shop-but until I find one, I will be happy with your recipe! Great post.
Fotf
Im in Warwickshire 🙂 where did you live? So i could use Maltesers and they would be a good substitute?
Fotf
No the chocolate ones, are they like Maltesers? Do you have maltesers?
Fotf
I'm always curious, what are Whoppers?
RavieNomNoms
Well look at you Brandie! What a great idea! I haven't had a whopper in forever...I feel like this cake needs to be made so I can amend that problem haha
Leslie
Brandi, this cake is for me--I have always loved Whoppers!!! Also, there's an awesome old fashioned drive-in back home that has the very best burgers with chocolate and vanilla malts! 🙂
I'm so glad you posted this recipe.
Blessings, Leslie
Annie Oakley's Kitchen
Honestly, I didn't even know that malted milk was a "thing" or something you could buy. Well I guess you learn something new every day! I do love whoppers though and that cake looks delicious!
Becky
Love the Whoppers in this cake. When I was growing up, we went to the "drugstore" with a fountain that had chocolate malts, which were the best. I will make this cake for my Bunco group, that love the Whoppers and chocolate malts.
Brooks at Cakewalker
Thank you for the trip down memory lane Brandie! In high school, I worked in an ice cream shop where malted confections enjoyed versatility across the menu. You're right, the ingredient nearly seems overlooked these days. Another terrific recipe my friend.
Katrina {In Katrina's Kitchen}
I love that you said "not the Burger King kind" lol Oh yum!
The Country Cook
Warwickshire! Oh you lucky duck! So beautiful there. We used to go the orchestra concerts and firework show every summer at Warwick castle (not sure if they still do it). I loved it there. We lived outside of London in Uxbridge. We would love to come back and visit soon!
The main ingredient in this really is the powdered chocolate malt, so as long as you can find that, the Maltesers would taste great on top of this.
Jill, not sure about the malt extract. I think it could work but it would need to be a chocolate malt - not vanilla. Are you able to find that in France? (so good to hear from you!!)
The Country Cook
We don't have maltesers here but I lived in the UK for three years so I know what you are referring too. They are VERY similar to maltesers. They don't have quite the same texture in the center but I would say they are very close in taste! What part of the UK do you live in?
The Country Cook
Are you referring to the ones from Burger King? They are big grilled hamburgers with lettuce, tomato and onion. The ones I'm using are chocolate malted milk balls. 🙂
Colleen
Ohmygoodness!!!! I can't wait to try this one! I adore malt!! My son's 19th birthday is on Wednesday so I think I'll make this for him! When he was just a little tyke .... maybe 3 or 4 years old, he kept telling his dad and I that he wanted some "burger candy". We couldn't figure for the life of us what he was asking for. Finally we took him to our local store to pick some out and he got so excited when he saw the Whoppers. I guess he associated it with the burger place. LOL! What a happy memory this will bring back to make him this cake for his birthday! Thank you. 🙂